Title: She Gathers Rain

Author: landofthekwt

Rating: PG-13

Genre: Soul sucking revenants

Pairing: Inuyasha/Kikyou

Word Count:728 including song lyrics in bold

Song: She Gathers Rain by Collective Soul

Prompt: Free Inusongfics Week 12

Warning: Dead girls used to give power to a dead woman

Summary: Kikyou plots to kill Inuyasha

Disclaimer: Don't own or profit from Inuyasha or She Gathers Rain. They belong to their owner and users.

The village made her nostalgic for her youth before the Jewel came to here. Playing with the children, healing the sick, gathering the herbs all of the crafts of a miko The miko she was once before death came for her. Before love and betrayal Before the endless battle to protect the Jewel. She longed for those days. But they would never come again. The dead are not allowed the friendship of children. Their simple love that made her smile could never be hers.

Today she dresses

For the change she's facing now

And the storm that's raging

A safe haven she has found

For though she had been resurrected she was not whole. She was a pale facsimile of the woman she once was. Most of her soul had been reclaimed by her reincarnation. Most of her body was made of clay stitched together with her bones and gravesoul. Her skin and her face might appear to be human, but she could not feel. The children had touched her hands but their warmth could not touch her. She could not even cry. All she had left was her voice and her miko powers. .

She doesn't care

What the prohpets say anymore

For the love she had

She has no more

But she had found a purpose. A purpose for remaining in this world. The man she had loved, The man for whom she had given her life had somehow escaped the spell she had woven with her last breath. She had hoped never to see him again. The parting had been so painful. The love and sorrow she felt as she tried to hug him as he hung from the tree had been excrutiating. And there he was alive while she was dead. Denying that he had killed her.. Denying that he had betrayed her. Telling her that he loved her and had wanted to become human for her.

So she gathers rain

She gathers rain

To rinse away all her guilt and pain

She gathers rain

She gathers rain

To wash and cleanse and make her whole again

He had to die. The pain and suffering she felt would never be healed while he walked the earth. His life mocked everything she thought that she had wanted in their relationship. If only he would die with her. Then they could be together again. They could start over. She would be whole again. They never need part again.

And so she began to gather her strength. Her soul stealers brought the souls of the young girls. They would serve their purpose. They would give her the strength to kill her lover to bring him to hell with her. When she was done she would release them on their journey. For now she needed them for her fight with her love.

Her imagination

Has started stretching wide

And her new conviction

No longer will she hide

She's not branded

Once she was a pure miko. But she has been through the fire. Death has tainted her. She longs for revenge. She longs for peace. Only by gaining revenge against the lover who betrayed can she obtain the peace that she longed for in death. Until that time she would walk the night. A creature of darkness who preyed upon the souls of the young girls. She knew their sorrow . She could feel their pain and yet her need was so great that she greedily swallowed every bit of their essence.

When prophets speak words of fire

The same love she gives

She requires

So she gathers rain

She gathers rain

The bait was set. She knew that Inuyasha would come. How could he resist once he knew it was she who was stealing the souls of the young women. When he came, he would die. Then she would finally be free of the hate.. She would finally be free of the love. At last she return to her slumbers which had been interrupted by his voice calling her soul from her reincarnations only to come face to face with the man she hated. The man she loved. The man she never wanted to see again. The man with whom she wanted to spend eternity.

To rinse away all her guilt and pain

She gathers rain

She gathers rain

To wash and cleanse and make her whole again